Well, it has been very long since I had any interest in posting in this forum. :P
I have found a game which haven't been launched recently but still saves the Wii for me: Monster Hunter Tri.
While this is certainly not a 10/10 game, it is close enough. And by "close enough", I rather mean "the best game I've come to play so far on any modern console".
Since this game is not new, I'll pass the long introduction. Simply put, you are a hunter who hunts preys and monsters in special locations and you start up by trying your knife on lesser preys until you can build back your "quest camp" (which is pretty much the tutorial of the game), then you are sent on missions (called quests) which require you to fulfill specific objectives. All along you are free to take your time to explore the land(s), gather supplies and resources which both help your village grow and help you by allowing you to build more powerful armor and weapons which in turn will help you get strong enough to tackle the more, far more powerful monsters later on.
The game have an online mode which I have tried, which is pretty much a copy of the offline play but with stronger monsters and the possibility to play up to 4 players at the same time. There is some extra stuff online so it is actually worthwhile to play it. Or you could simply beat the game offline and then go online to continue playing on a different pace.
While the game refers constantly to quests, this game is not a RPG. It is clearly a full blown action game melded with a solid story which really bring all the events together in the game. The real reason why there is so much reference to quests is because this is actually an asiatic port (from Japan I think but I might be wrong). Which also explain why I grabbed this copy so late... I suspect a low number was shipped around here as the game is fully (and remarkably well) translated in French which mean that I got actually pretty lucky to even find one (as per some of our newest laws, games needs to be translated at least somewhat in French before they can be sold around here. You can smell the Japanese sense of perfection at work here, which is why I suspect the game originate from Japan).
I have tackled monsters up to the Lagiacrus until now... Next on my todo list is a Gigginox, which kind of "scared" the living shit out of me the first time I met one. At that time I was still using a bowgun and I have come to realize that while the bowgun is great against small preys up to about a Royal Ludroth in size, lack of armor defense and slowness of fire doesn't cut it for larger preys. I remember I killed my first Lagiacrus with about 20 seconds left on the 50 minutes timer... Was really too close. I have thus watched a few videos on Youtube since then and switched to other weapons. I particularly like the lance and shield and will probably be using this a lot in the near future.
So... Anybody played this game too? Any tips, any comments on the game?
